Bundle

Sep 6, 2016

I had been having problems with bundler on my desktop, but not my laptop. The symptom, as close
as I could describe it, was that adding a library to the Gemfile and running bundle caused a segfault
coming from the psych library. I was always able to address this by running gem install library_name and then running bundle, it seems to have been happy as long as it did not need to access the network.

I tracked down the issue thanks to a warning about thread safety in the version of gem shipped with centos 7. gem --version from my terminal gave 2.5.1 (this was using the rvm installed version), but /usr/bin/gem was installed by the OS. Checking which bundle shows this was a convenience script in ~/bin/bundle, and it started with #!/usr/bin/ruby which of course did something terrible. I had ffi links built for ruby 2.3.1 running from a call to ruby 2.0.0, and I’m suddenly surprised it worked as well as it did.

I’ve replaced the shebang line with #!/usr/bin/env ruby (a la python) and am much happier now.